How to Make Clipper Ship Models - A Practical Manual Dealing with Every Aspect of Clipper Ship Modelling from the Simplest Waterline Types to Fine Scale Models Fit for Exhibition Purposes
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How to Make Clipper Ship Models - A Practical Manual Dealing with Every Aspect of Clipper Ship Modelling from the Simplest Waterline Types to Fine Scale Models Fit for Exhibition Purposes - Edward W. Hobbs
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION—FAMOUS CLIPPERS.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CLIPPER SHIPS AND THEIR PERFORMANCES, TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE PART THEY HAVE PLAYED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPIRE. ILLUSTRATED WITH 6 FULL-PAGE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FINE CLIPPER SHIP MODELS.
AN hundred and fifty feet of canvas towering above us, the gleeful song of the wind in the shrouds, the swish and surge of ocean, and beneath our feet the gleaming decks, the steady heart pulse of a gallant ship at sea.
Roaming the world to distant parts, carrying the old flag to new lands, adding to the Empire, it was life, a life where man with bits of wood and canvas harnessed elemental forces with a rope, and most times won out by sheer grit and persistence.
They were days when men were men, quick and coarse of speech and jest, stern and enduring—hard bitten, tough, and weather worn—but men, and Britons at that! above all seamen. Work to be done was done with brawn and muscle, with gasping breath and heaving chest, eyes asmart with brine, hands torn and bleeding battling with iron-hard sailcloth and relentless wind. At times idling away the golden hours with merry song and jest, blithesome of heart—For we are homeward bound, my boys—we are homeward bound.
FIG. 1.—Model of Cutty Sark built by Messrs. Bassett-Lowke, Ltd.
FIG. 2.—Model of Early China Clipper, rigged in the Science Museum. South Kensington, London.
Alas! the good old sailing ships are gone—gone as if ashamed of the animated iron boxes that nowadays do service as ships. Granted these oleaginous monsters are comfortable, speedy and reliable, but where are the old vitality, the old song in the blood, the stirring stateliness of the full-rigged ship, the grace and beauty of the clipper? Here and there in odd ports and out of way corners of the ocean a clipper glides by in a travesty of her old pride, soon to be hull down on the horizon, lost again in the mists of time.
Many of these gallant clippers conveyed emigrants to golden climes, to fortune or a pioneer’s grave. Now they are nothing but a memory cherished by ageing shellbacks, their portraits in early oils or mezzotints lovingly stored in collectors’ galleries, their timbers rotting in a thousand seas, they lie unhonoured in nameless graves—but their soul goes on for ever, for they were, of the sea, and the sea is eternal!
Despite the advance of steam, electricity, and oil, despite, the passing of three generations, we still love and admire the old clippers, we bow to the inevitable march of progress but always in the heart and mind of Britain the sailing ship remains the undisputed Queen of Ocean, the secret love of Britons, the symbol of sea service.
What wonderful passages were made by those old clippers, speeds that would be creditable to a modern liner were common. Thermopylae, for instance, ran from London to Melbourne in 60 days; Sir Lancelot, built at Greenock in 1865, completed the voyage from Foochow to the English Channel in 89 days.
Cutty Sark made a magnificent passage of 1050 miles in three days; the Melbourne, with a fine run of 374 miles in a day to her credit, averaged 82 days outward bound from London to Melbourne for something like twelve years. These names and speeds that come to mind are typical of hundreds of gallant ships whose records can be gleamed from such books as the China Clippers, Colonial Clippers, Log of the Cutty Sark and other works.
Not all the old clippers are lost; some are still afloat, and in particular, the gallant little Cutty Sark, sunning herself off Falmouth in new and fine clothes, saved from ignominious decay by loving hands; long may she remain to queen it as a gracious Lady of the Sea, scarred and weary but proud of her unbroken record as one of the fastest sailing ships the world has ever known.
FIG. 3.—Model of Stonehouse built in 1871
FIG. 4.—Fully rigged model of Sudbourne.
Built at Dumbarton by Scott & Co. in 1869, a model of her, recently supplied by Bassett-Lowke Ltd., is shown in fig. 1, and a tribute to the skill of the celebrated ship modellers of Northampton. This model to a scale of 1/4 inch to 1 foot is based on photographs and particulars derived from the actual ship; other photos of her appear elsewhere in this book.
A model of an early China clipper built about 1850 is shown in fig. 2; she was rigged in the workshops of the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, from particulars supplied by Messrs. A. Hall & Co. of Aberdeen, who built the Stornoway, the first typical clipper in the China tea trade, and notable for a run from Hong-Kong to the Downs in 102 days. A fine rigged model of a wooden built clipper ship, the Stonehouse, completed in 1866, is illustrated in fig. 3; the hull was made by Mr. Row in 1871 and the masting, rigging and sails added in the South Kensington Museum in 1906. The original was 209 ft. long, 36 ft. beam, and 21 ft. deep and a gross registered tonnage of 1153 tons; the model is built to a scale of 1/4 in. to 1 foot, and is a very fine piece of work.
The fine example of ship modelling illustrated in fig. 4 portrays the Sudbourne, a full-rigged ship built of iron at Stockton-on-Tees in 1881, and now on exhibition at the Science Museum. Her registered tonnage was 1750 tons, length 265 ft., breadth 39 ft., and depth 24 ft. This model is also to a scale of 1/4 in. to 1 ft. which allows of finely detailed work.
The last and largest of the White Star
sailing clippers, the California, built and equipped at Belfast in 1890 by Harland & Wolff, had a length of 329 ft., breadth 45 ft. and gross register 3099 tons. The model shown in fig. 5 is to a scale of 1/4 in. to 1 ft., and gives a fine impression of the ultimate development of the clipper ship.
FIG. 5.—Model of California, the last of the White Star
Sailing